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From: critical.mass@pro-graphics.cts.com (Peter Altamore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: XCAD for Amiga
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Date: 25 Oct 90 07:16:43 GMT
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On  23 Oct 90 00:06:36 GMT allen@ns.network.com (Allen Middleton):
 
>Don't know about XCAD, but UltraDesign reads AutoCAD files, and it supports
>AMAX.  (Not that I'm trying to recommend UltraDesign, I purchased it, got
>the copy from Briwall last weekend, I was very disappointed.  I had 0k
>fastram left on my Amiga 500/1meg, it was dismally slow, was missing
>simple features like area select for multiple objects [each object to be
>operated on had to be selected individually, a pain], it guru'ed several
>times when I probably tried to perform an operation incorrectly.  Maybe
 
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This has got to take the cake!  I do not own, use and have never seen
UltraDesign, keep that in mind.  UltraDesign is sold as a PROFESSIONAL CAD
SYSTEM!!  No self-respecting CAD professional would be saddled with a 1meg
500.  If the program performed poorly, it's a good bet that the reason it
did is because you're running it on the lowest common denominator hardware.
CAD is memory and precessor intensive work, a stock 500 simply will not do.
Of course I can't comment on missing features, please heed the second sentence
in this paraghaph.
 
 
>thought it was pretty good, though it definitely has a way to go to be
>as good as it could.)
 
This is probably doing Progressive Peripherals a great disservice.  More
likely it's you and your machine that have a way to go to be as good as
they could be.  Try it with 3 megs minimum.
 
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